Book quotes from Firefly

Book

It's good to be home.

Book

He's not wildly interested in ingratiating himself with anyone, yet he's very protective of his crew. It's odd.

Inara

Why are you so fascinated by him?

Book

Because he's something of a mystery. Why are you?

Inara

[looks taken aback, then smiles] Because so few men are.

Kaylee

You're gonna come with us.

Book

Excuse me?

Kaylee

You like ships. You don't seem to be lookin' at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.

Book

She don't look like much.

Kaylee

Oh, she'll fool ya. You ever sailed in a Firefly?

Book

I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong. I believe... I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship.

Inara

Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.

Mal

[To Shepherd Book] Shouldn't you be off bringing religiosity to the fuzzy-wuzzies or some such?

Book

Oh, I've got heathens aplenty right here.

Book

That's... that's quite a lot of blood, isn't it?

Mal

Just means you ain't dead.

Book

'Fraid I might be needing a preacher.

Mal

That's good. You just lie there and be ironical.

We aren't an emergency facility, Captain. Our services aren't available simply to anyone—

Book

Com… mander… my… ident card.

Get this man to the infirmary at once.

Mal

They let us come, and they let us go. What kind of ident card gets us that kind of reception and send-off?

Book

I am a Shepherd. Folks like a man of God.

Mal

No, they don't. Men of God make everyone feel guilty and judged.

Book

If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Mal

Preacher, you got a smutty mind!

Book

Perhaps I spoke out of turn.

Mal

Per-maybe-haps, I'm thinking!

Book

I apologize. I'll make her up a room in passenger dorm.

Mal

Good!

Book

[walking away, pauses and looks back at Mal] The special hell.

Simon

They called it the "good-night" kiss.

Zoe

So you two were kissin'?

Book

Well, isn't that... special [Referring to the "special hell" he threatend Mal with when he would take sexual advantage of "Saffron"]?

Book

What are we up to, sweetheart?

River

Fixing your Bible.

Book

I, um... What?

River

Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics... doesn't make sense.

Book

No, no. You—you can't...

River

So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem.

Book

Really?

River

We'll have to call it "early quantum state phenomenon". Only way to fit 5,000 species of mammals on the same boat.

Book

River, you don't... fix the Bible.

River

It's broken. It doesn't make sense.

Book

It's not about... making sense. It's about believing in something. And letting that belief be real enough to change your life. It's about faith. You don't fix faith, River. It fixes you.

River

They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.

Book

River? Please, why don't you come on out?

River

No! Can't. Too much hair.

Book

Is— is that it?

Zoe

Hell, yes, preacher. If I didn't have stuff to get done, I'd be in there with her.

Zoe

River, honey, he's putting the hair away now.

River

Doesn't matter. It'll still be there. Waiting.

River

Don't be afraid. That's what it says. Don't be afraid.

Book

Yes.

River

But you are afraid.

Book

Yes.

River

You're afraid we're going to run out of air, that we'll die gasping. But we won't. That's not going to happen.

River

We'll freeze to death first.

Zoe

Welcome back, sir.

Mal

I go someplace?

Very nearly.

Inara

We thought we lost you.

Mal

No, I've been right here.

Mal

Wash, you okay?

Wash

[a little buzzed from giving blood] Yeah, Mal, I'm fine.

Mal

You got a thing in your arm.

Wash

[smiling] Yeah.

Simon

Try not to speak. You're heavily medicated and you lost a lot of blood.

Simon

All right, I have to insist the Captain needs to rest.

Mal

Yeah. Think the doc might not be wrong about that one. Just gonna need a few.... [trails off as he closes his eyes]

Mal

Y'all gonna be here when I wake up?

Book

We'll be here.

Mal

Good. That's good.

Yep. Real beauty, ain't she? Yes, sir. Right smart purchase, this vessel.

I tell you what. You buy this ship, treat her proper - she'll be with you for the rest of your life.

Son? Hey, son!

You hear a word I been sayin'?

Book

He said, "Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals… speak on every subject… then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man."

Simon

What if you don't live near a volcano?

Book

I expect he was being poetical.

Simon

Sadistic crap legitimized by florid prose. Tell me you're not a fan.

Book

I'm just wondering if they were. The people who did this to your sister.

Simon

The government did this to her.

Book

A government is a body of people; usually, notably ungoverned.

Simon

Now you're quoting the Captain.

Book

Yes, I'd forgotten—you're moon-lighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned?

Simon

No. But, I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.